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31.		The Mouse Trap: The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease (slate.com)
		56 points by JacobAldridge on Nov 17, 2011 \| 20 comments
32.		More Stanford Online Classes by January (nlp-class.org)
		55 points by worldimperator on Nov 17, 2011 \| 4 comments
33.		The OS Wars: We Have A Winner (sourceforge.net)
		55 points by webwanderings on Nov 17, 2011 \| 37 comments
34.		Google Maps Mystery Actually Spy Satellite Targets (foxnews.com)
		53 points by sbashyal on Nov 17, 2011 \| 20 comments
35.		Google: Financial Embargo Of WikiLeaks Shows How To Deal With Piracy (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		50 points by jwdunne on Nov 17, 2011 \| 35 comments
36.		Scalatra a tiny Sinatra-like web framework for Scala (scalatra.org)
		49 points by abhishektwr on Nov 17, 2011 \| 11 comments
37.		WebGL Brain Surface viewer (mgh.harvard.edu)
		49 points by gourneau on Nov 17, 2011 \| 7 comments
38.		Show HN: The Clip (kickstarter.com)
		46 points by pkrein on Nov 17, 2011 \| 14 comments
39.		Kibi.js: a client-side web framework in 1,024 bytes (github.com/jed)
		45 points by jedschmidt on Nov 17, 2011 \| 7 comments
40.		COMEFROM (wikipedia.org)
		41 points by llambda on Nov 17, 2011 \| 20 comments
41.		46 Cents in Revenue Per DAU? Vancouver’s A Thinking Ape Has Seen It Before (insidemobileapps.com)
		39 points by garbowza on Nov 17, 2011 \| 9 comments
42.		Celebrating LEO, the world’s first business computer (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		38 points by robin_reala on Nov 17, 2011 \| 5 comments
43.		Visualizing the World's Food Consumption (foodservicewarehouse.com)
		40 points by illdave on Nov 17, 2011 \| 29 comments
44.		What does a single day of Flickr uploads look like as real photos? (infochimps.com)
		33 points by winniechimp on Nov 17, 2011 \| 4 comments
45.		-M sends daily digests to your users based on git commit messages (minusm.com)
		32 points by jpadilla_ on Nov 17, 2011 \| 17 comments
46.		Show HN: I gave up on the project I'd been working on, so I open-source'd it (github.com/jarred-sumner)
		32 points by Jarred on Nov 17, 2011 \| 12 comments
47.		Why is Funding Perl Core Development So Difficult? (modernperlbooks.com)
		29 points by hendi_ on Nov 17, 2011 \| 83 comments
48.		Simple but Interesting Features of VS2010 and C# 4.0 (codeproject.com)
		29 points by yread on Nov 17, 2011 \| 20 comments
49.		Google Checkout Is Dead, Long Live Google Wallet (searchengineland.com)
		29 points by kirpekar on Nov 17, 2011 \| 4 comments
50.		Security researcher defeats Windows 8 secure boot (arstechnica.com)
		28 points by robinhouston on Nov 17, 2011 \| 8 comments
51.		Yelp Files for IPO (S-1) (sec.gov)
		27 points by hornokplease on Nov 17, 2011 \| 1 comment
52.		Nook’s Specs Are Exaggerated, Again (nytimes.com)
		27 points by madiator on Nov 17, 2011 \| 13 comments
53.		If Multitasking Is Impossible, Why Are Some People So Good at It? (theatlantic.com)
		27 points by llambda on Nov 17, 2011 \| 11 comments
54.		A simple tip to make your debugging sessions go easier (codebetter.com)
		25 points by szcukg on Nov 17, 2011 \| 7 comments
55.		The Geek-Kings of Smut (nymag.com)
		23 points by blantonl on Nov 17, 2011 \| 4 comments
56.		Fun Fact of The Week -- How quickly do startup companies generate revenue? (firstround.com)
		24 points by jkopelman on Nov 17, 2011 \| 1 comment
57.		A math puzzle from Randall Munroe (plus.google.com)
		22 points by brown9-2 on Nov 17, 2011 \| 1 comment
58.		Smartphones are making us tired, weak work slaves (itworld.com)
		22 points by junioreven on Nov 17, 2011 \| 6 comments
59.		Would-Be Engineers Hit Books the Hardest, a Study Finds (nytimes.com)
		18 points by mikek on Nov 17, 2011 \| 11 comments
60.		Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time (paintacquaint.com)
		18 points by paintAcquaint on Nov 17, 2011 \| 27 comments
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